Money is a miraculous thing. It is your personal energy reduced to a portable form and endowed with power you yourself do not possess. It can go where you cannot go; speak languages you cannot speak; lift burdens you cannot touch with your fingers; save lives with which you cannot deal directly.

— Harry Emerson Fosdick

Harry Emerson Fosdick Quotes

Our power is not so much in us as through us.

— Harry Emerson Fosdick

He is a poor patriot whose patriotism does not enable him to understand how all men everywhere feel about their altars and their hearthstones, their flag and their fatherland.

— Harry Emerson Fosdick

The first question to be answered by any individual or any social group, facing a hazardous situation, is whether the crisis is to be met as a challenge to strength or as an occasion for despair.

— Harry Emerson Fosdick

Life asks not merely what you can do; it asks how much can you endure and not be spoiled.

— Harry Emerson Fosdick

A good sermon is an engineering operation by which a chasm is bridged so that the spiritual goods on one side-the ‘unsearchable riches of Christ’ – are actually transported into personal lives upon the other.

— Harry Emerson Fosdick

We cannot all be great, but we can always attach ourselves to something that is great.

— Harry Emerson Fosdick

The all but unanimous judgment seems to be that we, the democracies, are just as responsible for the rise of the dictators as the dictatorships themselves, and perhaps more so.

— Harry Emerson Fosdick

Every human life involves an unfathomable mystery, for man is the riddle of the universe, and the riddle of man in his endowment with personal capacities.

— Harry Emerson Fosdick

Life consists not simply in what heredity and environment do to us, but in what we make out of what they do to us.

— Harry Emerson Fosdick

He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will need no courage. Mysterious though it is, the characteristics in human nature which we love best grow in a soil with a strong mixture of troubles.

— Harry Emerson Fosdick

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He is a poor son whose sonship does not make him desire to serve all men’s mothers.

— Harry Emerson Fosdick

Nothing in this world is more inspiring than a soul up against crippling circumstances who carries it off with courage and faith and undefeated character-nothing! See Light From Many Lamps, edited by L. E. Watson, article by H. E. Fosdick, pp. 93-94 re: a serious cripple who succeeded.

— Harry Emerson Fosdick

Opinions may be mistaken; love never is.

— Harry Emerson Fosdick

No virtue is more universally accepted as a test of good character than trustworthiness .

— Harry Emerson Fosdick

Of all mad faiths maddest is the faith that we can get rid of faith.

— Harry Emerson Fosdick

One could almost phrase the motto of our modern civilization thus: Science is my shepherd; I shall not want.

— Harry Emerson Fosdick

Preaching is personal counseling on a group basis.

— Harry Emerson Fosdick

Every year the inventions of science weave more inextricably the web that binds man to man, group to group, nation to nation.

— Harry Emerson Fosdick

Every great scientist becomes a great scientist because of the inner self-abnegation with which he stands before truth, saying: “Not my will, but thine, be done.” What, then, does a man mean by saying, Science displaces religion, when in this deep sense science itself springs from religion?

— Harry Emerson Fosdick

Friends are necessary to a happy life. When friendship deserts us, we are as helpless as a ship left by the tide high upon the shore. When friendship returns to us, it’s as though the tide came back, giving us buoyancy and freedom.

— Harry Emerson Fosdick

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